Monday, November 8, 2010

The Republican win on Tuesday was far larger than the historic takeback of 1994, the stunning rebuke of Bill Clinton that subsequently forced a chastised president to enact welfare reform (a flying-pig moment). On Tsunami Tuesday, the Republicans won more seats in the House than at any time since 1948 -- 65 seats, the biggest swing by either party in the 62 years since then, along with another six seats in the Senate. We changed the world at the state level, completely flipping 18 state legislatures, including North Carolina, which hasn't seen a Republican majority since 1870. The Republicans gained over 500 legislative seats. Republicans picked up at least 10 governorships, giving them more than 30. Think about that.

Even the sparse wins the subversive left managed to pull out on Tuesday were riddled with chicanery, cheating, union payoffs, and the buying of votes with "free lunches." Harry Reid's systemic corruption garnered a win funded by millions of dollars from public-sector unions. It was all in the game. Same for California -- a state from which decent, hardworking Americans (aka Republicans) have been fleeing, a state destroyed by a union choke hold.

The stakes could not have been higher or more serious in the triumph of the rational on Tuesday. But despite the voter fraud, the SEIU/ACORN thugocracy, and the illegitimate tactics, the people spoke, and the people won.Now what? We are done with big government. We are done with recklessly stealing huge private-sector wealth. We are done being taxed half to death, our future leveraged and our competitive edge destroyed.

Obama still doesn't get it. Obama's tone at his press conference on Wednesday was still contemptuous of the American people and shocking in terms of simple math. He had the audacity to say this: "We should be able to agree now that it makes no sense for China to have better rail systems than us, and Singapore having better airports than us. And we just learned that China now has the fastest supercomputer on Earth. That used to be us. They're making investments, because they know those investments will pay off over the long term."

Singapore and China are free-market economies -- laissez-faire capitalism (though the Chinese people are politically repressed, which is why China will ultimately fail). So here we have Obama whining about more successful countries that are successful because of capitalism while driving America to the failed European model of socialism, Marxism, and serfdom.

In Obama's big-government America, the conditions in which free men produce, invent, and prosper quickly deteriorate due to government taxation and regulation. Big government has been encroaching on our lives for decades now, and with Obama, the bottom falls out.

Higher taxes imposed on the rich (and the semi-rich) come out of their investment capital (i.e., their savings). These taxes mean less investment, i.e., less production, fewer jobs, higher prices, etc. By the time the "rich" lower their standard of living, those who work in their companies or subcontract with them will be gone, along with their savings and their spouses' jobs -- and no power in the world (no economic power) will be able to revive the dead industries. There will be no such power left. (In this I am paraphrasing Ayn Rand's words from decades ago.)

The Concorde was going to be the future of air travel, in which we'd bop from place to place in half the time. Now the Concorde is defunct. Kaput. Much like the environment for producers and businessmen, who are the "villains" of Democrats, statists, collectivists, moochers, and looters.

This is the price of force. This is the price of coercion. This is the price of statism. This is the price of big government. The very idea of America has been subsumed by an enslavement mentality.

Every dollar the government robs from business, from the individual people, is a dollar that won't be invested in the private sector. Wealth won't be created, jobs won't be created, entrepreneurs and businessmen will be deprived of capital, etc. The United States was founded on the principle of individual rights -- government was designed to be small.The objective of the government was defense -- protection of individual rights.

What has the government done with the untold wealth they looted from the American people other than suck much-needed capital out of our free society to pay off their thugs, crooks, corrupt organizations, and get-out-the-vote community organizations?

Government is not the answer -- it destroys everything it touches. We must take back the culture, because politics is merely a reflection of the culture. The left has the culture in a choke hold. They demonize the successful and hardworking and exalt failures, moochers, and looters -- an inverted moral priority.

We are done with lies. We are done with "It's Bush's fault."We are done with "Obama inherited the second Great Depression."No. Obama's policies led to a great coming depression. Obama talks about Bush spending? The utter gall. Bush was Jack Benny to Obama's profligate Mack Daddy Warbucks. The left can spin it any way they like, but the economic emergency of 2008 was a direct result of Democrat entitlement/financial policy: Carter's Community Investment Act (CIA), Clinton's sub-prime push, and the ensuing Barney Frank Freddie Mac/Fanny Mae plunder. I do not fault Bush war expenditures.We are at war with a ruthless, bloodthirsty, savage ideology that has no humanity.No expense can be spared in defeating jihad. Obama's sniveling like a little girl falls on deaf ears when you consider the trillions he stole from us for no reason but to pad the pockets of his shadow government.

Our victory is the beginning of the forty years' war -- who is with me?

We will repeal national socialist ObamaCare.

We will destroy all old propaganda media. New media is steamrolling over the dead media walking.

We will repeal the financial reform bill that scapegoated business for the abject failures of the Fed.

We will take back the college campuses.

We will get on our children's school boards and, just like in Texas, change the whitewashed history books and review the syllabi.

Get government out of our lives. Dismantle big government. Piece by piece.

Deregulate business. Piece by piece. Sector by sector. Unshackle the motor of the country. Free the producer.

We will volunteer in homeschooling networks. We will donate and offer our services in our respective areas of expertise.

In recent years, China has re-invigorated its support for leading state-owned enterprises in sectors it considers important to "economic security," explicitly looking to foster globally competitive national champions.The Chinese government faces numerous economic development challenges, including: (a) strengthening its social safety net, including pension and health system reform, to counteract a high domestic savings rate and correspondingly low domestic demand; (b) sustaining adequate job growth for tens of millions of migrants, new entrants to the work force, and workers laid off from state-owned enterprises deemed not worth saving; (c) reducing corruption and other economic crimes; and (d) containing environmental damage and social strife related to the economy's rapid transformation...Deterioration in the environment - notably air pollution, soil erosion, and the steady fall of the water table, especially in the north - is another long-term problem.

The economy of Singapore is a developed country and highly developed state capitalist market economy. The state controls and owns firms that comprise at least 60% of the GDP through government entities such as the sovereign wealth fund Temasek.

In 2000, Singapore had a workforce of about 2.2 million. The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), the sole trade union federation which has a symbiotic relationship with the ruling party, comprises almost 99% of total organized labour. Government policy and pro-activity rather than labour legislation controls general labour and trade union matters. The Employment Act offers little protection to white collar workers due to an income threshold.

Not only is Singapore NOT, in any way laissez-faire, they have, gasp, socialized medicine.

Singapore has a universal healthcare system where government ensures affordability, largely through compulsory savings and price controls, while the private sector provides most care. Overall spending on healthcare amounts to only 3% of annual GDP. Of that, 66% comes from private sources.

Singapore's system uses a combination of compulsory savings from payroll deductions (funded by both employers and workers) a nationalized catastrophic health insurance plan, and government subsidies, as well as "actively regulating the supply and prices of healthcare services in the country" to keep costs in check;

Craig~ Yup. I believe that is her name..."outlaw Islam"Um, no. Neutralize the groups who are perpetrating the installment of progressive sharia compliance, etc. onto our society, yes.

"Posting this stuff doesn't do much for your credibility."I'm not out to win your favor, Craig. That would be an exercise in futility.

And, yes, Ms. Geller has a flambouant & sometimes brash style. Is it mine? No. Never claimed it was. Does she make serious points? Yes.

Nice research on China & Singapore, thanks; but that was not her point. Our author is identifying irony of BHO's penchant for demonizing capitalism in US, while lauding it in China,etc., . She's NOT making commentary on the intricacies & machinations of China/Singapore's economy & its full blown environmental impact...

Typical liberal/progressives never answer points...especially not directly. Their method is to make what they see as any valid point on some unrelated topic and then act as though they have proven something that contradicts something you have written.

Singapore and China are free-market economies -- laissez-faire capitalism (though the Chinese people are politically repressed, which is why China will ultimately fail). So here we have Obama whining about more successful countries that are successful because of capitalism while driving America to the failed European model of socialism, Marxism, and serfdom.

In Obama's big-government America, the conditions in which free men produce, invent, and prosper quickly deteriorate due to government taxation and regulation. Big government has been encroaching on our lives for decades now, and with Obama, the bottom falls out.

Geller clearly says that China and Singapore are laissez faire capitalist countries. Both of those countries are more socialist than the "failed European model of socialism, Marxism, and serfdom."

She then goes on to say,

We will crush them with our logic and reason and concrete facts.

Joe said...

Typical liberal/progressives never answer points...especially not directly. Their method is to make what they see as any valid point on some unrelated topic and then act as though they have proven something that contradicts something you have written.

Craig~ Since you're so very concerned about the minutia of points that Geller was not making, why not go to American Thinker & posit these thoughts so SHE can address them? It would be better use of our energy.

Great article revealing plans that look and sound great - but it won't be easy at all to carry them out.

A word or two about the rich. Most people that have voted for Obama are the descendants of those brought throughot the years from Africa and other places by the rich, to do the dirty work and make the rich richer.

The present situation in America looks like a 'sin and punishment' one. It's as Orwell said, that when you enslave others, you become their slave in the end.

So, rich people please watch the ways by which you make your money. Think of the future of your children not only of the money in your pockets. Don't let your greed fill up the country with people which will ultimately destroy you and the country!

Joe~ "Could there be a little self-sensitivity going on?"Um, yeah...evidenced by the 70-80 comments @ the post below this one. (I've never had 80 comments on a post. Have you? Must have touched some kind of a raw nerve...)

Their Prince has nearly been ridden out of town on a rail & they're just a wee bit defensive.

Z~ "the most important of which our president can't bring himself to whisper."Can you JUST BELIEVE this cat? That poor Indian girl's head must've been spinning w/ all the words BHO threw @ her -- in order to say absolutely nothing. Now the Indians know how we feel -- teleprompter & all.

Duta~ "The present situation in America looks like a 'sin and punishment' one."Very interesting commentary. It made my mind stretch, and it brings up a thought I've tossed around for a few years now...My understanding is that BHO is not officially a proponent of slave reparations , but is open to ideas whose end would be the same.Here's my thought: Mr. 'Spread the Wealth Around' is accomplishing his version of reparations through casting his Socialist -- leveling -- agenda on our country.

Intricate, deep subject. Much more to it than just this, but it's what your comment made me think of...

I'd probably identify more as libertarian than conservative, so a lot of what is in this article appeals strongly to my sense of what civil government ought to be.

The United States was founded on the principle of individual rights -- government was designed to be small. The objective of the government was defense -- protection of individual rights.

Ideally, our civil government is to be a restraining force against evil people who would harm others--and an orderly way to mete out justice when necessary.

In order for a less-govt society to be able to survive, individuals must be willing to responsibly self-govern in order to minimize the need for civil restraint.

Part of the reason we are where we are today is that many American citizens have refused to (or not even been told they need to)acknowledge this necessary facet of free society--to the point where federal/state govt has, in many ways, been invited to play provider/conscience/educator. Freedom gets traded off, a crumb at a time, for sweet-sounding promises of "security".

If we want to reverse the overall downward spiral, I think more of us are going to have to recognize the need to stand on our own feet even as we hold our representatives accountable for their actions.

A long time ago I had a contest on my Joe's Jottings blog with another blogger. I challenged him in his 100 response comments section to a comment duel...many of his readers came to my blog to comment. I got about 135 comments. He got somewhat over 200.

Susannah: I wrote a post complaining about how many comments the other guy got. I then posted it in his comments section, as well as on my blog. He responded with a post about how he deserved the comments. I challenged him to a comments war. He accepted and the fight was on.

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